Violent robber defeats deportation bid from UK due to his 'amazing' family bond

Violent robber defeats deportation bid from UK due to his 'amazing' family bond

A VIOLENT robber from Barbados has defeated a Government attempt to deport him thanks to his "right to a family life".

PUBLISHED: 08:59, Mon, Jul 1, 2013

Lee Corbin has been sentenced to 16 years for 75 offences

Lee Corbin, 50, who has been sentenced to a total of 16 years for 75 offences since arriving in the UK in 1978, can stay permanently due to his "amazing" relationship with his seven children by three women.

Home Secretary Theresa May had fought to deport him after his latest jail term - four years for an attempted knife-point robbery.

Judges on an immigration tribunal heard he was a "high risk of danger to the public and any partner", as well as reoffending, but they ruled his human rights outweighed that threat.

The panel used European human rights laws to rule that Corbin's "amazingly strong family life" meant that he should be allowed to stay.

Campaigners called the ruling "scandalous".

The Home Office said: "This kind of case is why we are looking to change the [immigration] law."